EDMONTON — Mike Babcock's line blender has been on ice crush lately. He has held down the button, full puree, and there's no sign of letting up.

So when the Maple Leafs players walked into the Oilers' new hockey palace on Wednesday afternoon for practice and saw they were skating with altogether different folks yet again, few were surprised.

This is the new normal.

“It's different every day pretty much,” Tyler Bozak said. “They change a lot during the game, too… It could change in the first period. Second. Third. Or you could stay together a couple months. I guess you just never know.”

With that in mind, it would be foolish to read too much into the Leafs line combinations.

Yet here we are, doing just that, for reasons we'll delve into below.

Here are the four combinations Babcock threw together at Wednesday's practice along with the total minutes those combinations...

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